While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making desperate appeals for assistance to any Western leader who will listen following Russia’s invasion of his country, he is not the innocent victim that he claims to be because, as usual, our media refuses to tell the whole story of what is really going on and why Vladimir Putin acted in the manner he did.
Just days before he ordered the “Special Military Operations” in Ukraine to commence on Feb. 24, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz offered the Ukrainian leader a brokered peace deal, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Only, Zelenskyy — one of World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab’s Young Global Leaders, turned down the deal and opted for war with a country he cannot possibly defeat instead, in what has to be one of the more stunning revelations of the conflict to date.
The WSJ noted that a major reason why Putin invaded in the first place had much to do with the U.S. and West failing to pay Russia much mind when Moscow voiced security concerns over the past several years:
For nearly two decades, the U.S. and the European Union vacillated over how to deal with the Russian leader as he resorted to increasingly aggressive steps to reassert Moscow’s dominion over Ukraine and other former Soviet republics.
A look back at the history of the Russian-Western tensions, based on interviews with more than 30 past and present policy makers in the U.S., EU, Ukraine and Russia, shows how Western security policies angered Moscow without deterring it. It also shows how Mr. Putin consistently viewed Ukraine as existential for his project of restoring Russian greatness. The biggest question thrown up by this history is why the West failed to see the danger earlier....<<<Read More>>>...
